Android-x86

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Release Note 8.1-r3

(2019/10/30)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 8.1-r3 release to public. This is the third stable release for Android-x86 8.1 (oreo-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 8.1-r3 is mainly a security updates of Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r69) with some bugfixes of 8.1-r2. We encourage users of 8.1-r2 or older releases upgrade to this one.

Released Files

This release contains these files. You can choose one of them depends on your devices. Most modern devices should be able to run the 64-bit ISO. For older devices with legacy BIOS, you may try the 32-bit ISO.

64-bit ISO: android-x86_64-8.1-r3.iso
sha1sum: 245130568aa051585f0b8867bc9d73ceb961603c
32-bit ISO: android-x86-8.1-r3.iso
sha1sum: c433f7cbf03b4413b9be57107259684ad752d496
64-bit rpm: android-x86-8.1-r3.x86_64.rpm
sha1sum: 8f54723b0d63633e7037782996a27cb99472342a
32-bit rpm: android-x86-8.1-r3.i686.rpm
sha1sum: ac40a24c51857f3ef1f77bde6bd6f50689c3c560
64-bit ISO with kernel 4.9: android-x86_64-8.1-r3-k49.iso
sha1sum: 759728403e5dd1fd14aaf09253950a3548ac99d5
Recommended for VMware users

To use an ISO file, Linux users can dump it into a usb drive by dd command like:

dd if=android-x86_64-8.1-r3.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.

Windows's users can use the tool Win32 Disk Imager to create a bootable usb stick.

Please read this page about how to install it to the device.

Except the traditional ISO files, we also package android-x86 files into a Linux package rpm. It allows Linux users to easily install the release into an existing Linux device with a standalone ext4 root partition. On an rpm based device (Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS/SUSE...), just install it like a normal rpm package:

sudo rpm -Uvh android-x86-8.1-r3.x86_64.rpm

This will update your older installation like 7.1-r3 or 8.1-r2 if you have.

On a deb based device (Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...), please use the alien tool to install it:

        sudo apt install alien
        
        sudo alien -ci android-x86-8.1-r3.x86_64.rpm

All files will be installed to the /android-8.1-r3/ subdirectory and boot entries will be added to grub2 menu. Reboot and choose android-x86 item from the menu to boot Android-x86. Alternatively, you can launch Android-x86 in a QEMU virtual machine by the installed qemu-android script:

sudo qemu-android

Note Android-x86 running in QEMU and the real machine (after rebooting) share the same data sub-folder.

To uninstall it :

sudo rpm -e android-x86

or (on Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...)

sudo apt-get remove android-x86

Source code

The source code is available in the main git server.

        repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b oreo-x86 -m android-x86-8.1-r3.xml

        repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle

Read this page for how to compile source code.